From 9b3f313a860f301909dc17332a789ed39aa5a09b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 17:18:27 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 08/14] Try to create /dev/ppp if not available

---
 pppd/sys-linux.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pppd/sys-linux.c b/pppd/sys-linux.c
index 95f5a72..33f83ac 100644
--- a/pppd/sys-linux.c
+++ b/pppd/sys-linux.c
@@ -2382,6 +2382,17 @@ int ppp_available(void)
     kernel_version = KVERSION(osmaj, osmin, ospatch);
 
     fd = open("/dev/ppp", O_RDWR);
+    if (fd < 0) {
+	/* try making it and see if that helps. */
+	if (errno == ENOENT && mknod("/dev/ppp", S_IFCHR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP,
+		  makedev(108, 0)) >= 0) {
+	    fd = open("/dev/ppp", O_RDWR);
+	    if (fd >= 0)
+		info("Created /dev/ppp device node");
+	    else
+		unlink("/dev/ppp");     /* didn't work, undo the mknod */
+	}
+    }
     if (fd >= 0) {
 	new_style_driver = 1;
 
-- 
2.30.0

